Problem with Exim and Mailscanner

[sean]

Sounds great.  Can we have an example of that? 


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-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Nick
Phillips
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:24 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Problem with Exim and Mailscanner

Jonas A. Larsen wrote:

>     I have made a simple mod of the Debian init script so it works with
>     1 initscript which starts both exim processes.
> 
>  
> 
> Nice work Jonas :)  The reason I avoided a single-script approach was 
> so that the original init script was left completely untouched with 
> the "hacked" scripted becoming "/etc/init.d/exim4.out".  The rationale 
> was that during an exim upgrade/update from Debian, the original 
> script would be "upgradeable" and left functional afterwards.  Then if 
> there is any porting work to the second script, you can do that at your
leisure.
>  However, once you heavily modify the original script, you have to 
> manage your own updates to init script and upgrades may leave the 
> modified script non-functional.
> 
>  
> 
> I was running Debian in a production environment and couldn't justify 
> the risk to the "powers that be" and so stayed with the 2-script 
> approach.  3 years down the track, and having migrated to Ubuntu LTS, 
> my pair of scripts are still going even after many upgrades and updates.
> 
>  
> 
> Not saying either approach is right or wrong...just highlighting the 
> differences between them :)  FWIW, I've grabbed a copy of your script 
> for reference any way!


Ummm, I find myself wondering why you're modifying the init script at all. I
don't recall exactly, but I'm pretty sure last time I set up mailscanner +
exim on debian I was able to make it work just by appropriate modifications
to the settings in /etc/default/exim4  -- and dropping a couple of files
into /etc/exim4/conf.d

That's how it's supposed to work, anyway.


Cheers,


Nick
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